Pinephone and open source firmware for baseband

[alaraajavamma]

All what I have ever heard and seen is Pine64 is really really careful when it talks about the modem and emphasizes that it cannot officially recommend alternative modem firmware. Pine64 distributes phones only with stock firmware and that is quite clearly said in every source I can find of.
And and in addition to above it is quite clearly stated how Biktorgjs firmware works and even that community build software does not advertise to be completely open source.

I have no idea where those other statements are coming from because as far as I have seen both Purism and Pine64 are very polite - even too polite if you ask from me . I haven't seen an ad/claim from either of them that would directly explain exactly how a phone from another manufacturer works.

As a quick look this looks more like a misunderstanding or even a "competitor" outburst. While this is not bloody battle it is really easy to see that Graphene OS, Pine64 and Purism are all kind of chasing same target group. It is quite heavy argument to say both Pine64 and Purism as scammers.

I can change my mind if someone can show me some evidence of the statements, but right now this looks mostly like a false smear